TY - JOUR AU - Dallari, Dante AU - Zagra, Luigi AU - Cimatti, Pietro AU - Guindani, Nicola AU - D’Apolito, Rocco AU - Bove, Federico AU - Casiraghi, Alessandro AU - Catani, Fabio AU - D’Angelo, Fabio AU - Franceschini, Massimo AU - Massè, Alessandro AU - Momoli, Alberto AU - Mosconi, Mario AU - Ravasi, Flavio AU - Rivera, Fabrizio AU - Zatti, Giovanni AU - Castelli, Claudio Carlo PY - 2021 DA - 2021/04/05 TI - Early mortality in hip fracture patients admitted during first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Northern Italy: a multicentre study JO - Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology SP - 15 VL - 22 IS - 1 AB - Treatment of hip fractures during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has posed unique challenges for the management of COVID-19-infected patients and the maintenance of standards of care. The primary endpoint of this study is to compare the mortality rate at 1 month after surgery in symptomatic COVID-positive patients with that of asymptomatic patients. A secondary endpoint of the study is to evaluate, in the two groups of patients, mortality at 1 month on the basis of type of fracture and type of surgical treatment. SN - 1590-9999 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s10195-021-00577-9 DO - 10.1186/s10195-021-00577-9 ID - Dallari2021 ER -